Benghazi Attack Group Dissolving After Losing Fight to Other Muslims

The militant monsters behind the 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four brave Americans are getting off the battlefield – worn down by years of bloody battles with rival factions in the North African country.

In a statement released over the weekend, Ansar al-Sharia in Libya announced it is disbanding after extended fighting in Benghazi with Islamist factions that are apparently just as bloodthirsty as the mob that stormed the American outpost in Benghazi in September 2012.

“We officially announce to everyone, especially Libyans, the dissolution of Ansar al-Sharia in Libya,” the group said in a statement published online, according to Al Jazeera.

The statement admitted the group had been “weakened” by fighting with other militias, Al Jazeera reported. That’s no small concession in a law-of-the-jungle part of the world where an admission of weakness is just an invitation to enemies to attack even harder. (Something the Obama administration never understood.)

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However, the group might have had no choice. While it overran Benghazi in 2014 and remained a major presence, it has been losing ground to the Libyan National Army, led by Gen. Khalifa Haftar.

Haftar was a rising star in the Libyan military under former dictator Muammar Gaddafi in the 1980s, but was exiled after the country’s failed invasion of Chad, according to the BBC. He spent the next decades in the United States, working for Gaddafi’s overthrow.

So, this former military commander under Gaddafi, who lived in the United States for more than 20 years plotting the regime’s downfall before returning to Libya in 2011, is now responsible for inflicting such losses on the terrorists who attacked the United States consulate in 2012 that they’ve been forced from the field.

Obviously, there are no guarantees in the turmoil of post-Gaddafi Libya, and just the fact that Haftar lived under the protection of the United States for so long – under Republican and Democrat administrations – doesn’t mean he’s on the side of the West. In fact, Haftar is now being supported by Russian government in a standoff with the nascent Libyan government over who will control the future of the country, according to The Guardian.

But knowing that the group behind the butchers of Benghazi have been put out of business by a military leader with more than a passing familiarity with America is at least a step in the right direction.

A group that was protected from the full vengeance of the United States by the lies and coverups of former President Barack Obama to win re-election in 2012, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to win the presidency in 2016, has now gotten its own kind of violent justice returned to it in spades.

There are times when the enemy of our enemy is our friend. This is one of them.